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...strangest things is, I see less of my husband. Because we lived on the premises, and Tony would try every day to come back to put Leo to bed if he could, we were never too far apart. Now as the Middle East envoy, trying to bring peace between Israel and Palestine, he spends about 10 days a month in the Middle East. That's a big difference...
...Dongguan's numerous self-help seminars, where factory girls pay to learn how to improve themselves and find better jobs: "It was the strangest jumble of ideas I had ever encountered, combining the primacy of the individual with rules that were at once New Age and rigid...the message was modern - express yourself, be confident - but it came with traditional assumptions: You will lift up your whole family....I noticed something: the students did not fall asleep. They did not look bored. No one ever left to use the bathroom during the two-hour class; they were afraid they might...
Republican media consultant and strategist Alex Castellanos predicted a victory for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, in a talk at the Institute of Politics yesterday afternoon. “This is the strangest election that I’ve ever seen,” Castellanos said, citing the unprecedented media scrutiny and sharp turns that have marked both the primary and general elections. Castellanos, an émigré from Cuba and an IOP Fellow this semester, praised the bottom-up organization of the Obama campaign and its effectiveness in mobilizing support. He dubbed Obama’s grassroots call...
...found myself at a small club just west of the city’s center. Its entrance was not where advertised—intentionally: the police had shut down and reopened the club many times over the years. In that small room with three walls were some of the strangest people I saw during my entire time overseas. There were teens who hadn’t bathed in a while, on purpose, and lanky girls slugging back cans of beer with neither fear of judgment nor pretension. After hearing the headlining band Carsick Cars’ first song I liked...
...Some of the strangest stamps over the past couple of decades have come from the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, or, more accurately, from a Pittsburgh-based company that produces stamps for Bhutan. Bhutan was the first to release 3-D stamps (including a series of masks and one of the country's much-loved mushrooms), silk stamps, steel stamps, scented stamps (way back in 1973) and even a stamp that could be played on a tiny record player. Now come the world's first CD-ROM stamps, containing documentaries about the country and marking Bhutan's political shift from...